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Literature summary for 2.4.1.80 extracted from

  • Marks, N.; Berg, M.J.; Saito, M.; Saito, M.
    Glucosylceramide synthase decrease in frontal cortex of Alzheimer brain correlates with abnormal increase in endogenous ceramides: consequences to morphology and viability on enzyme suppression in cultured primary neurons (2008), Brain Res., 1191, 136-147.
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Application

Application Comment Organism
medicine GCS expression is significantly down-regulated in Alzheimer brain Homo sapiens

Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
D-threo-2-palmitoylamino-3-pyrrolidino-1-propanol
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Homo sapiens
D-threo-2-palmitoylamino-3-pyrrolidino-1-propanol
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Rattus norvegicus

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Homo sapiens
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Rattus norvegicus
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Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining
cerebellar cortex GCS expression is significantly decreased in cortex of Alzheimer disease patients Homo sapiens
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granule cell cerebellar granule cells are treated with GCS inhibitor D-threo-2-palmitoylamino-3-pyrrolidino-1-propanol which induces an increase in log-chain ceramides, loss of viability and dramatic changes in neuron/neurite morphology Rattus norvegicus
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
GCS
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Homo sapiens
GCS
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Rattus norvegicus
glucosylceramide synthase
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Homo sapiens
glucosylceramide synthase
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Rattus norvegicus